A Good Man Is Hard To Find Good Vs Evil

In the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor draws upon the concept of good vs. evil. The grandmother being good and the Misfit being evil. There are many ways you can characterize the grandmother, but I found her to be a caring, racist, humble and a religious person. From the get go the grandmother seems to be caring because she was really concerned if the family went to Florida they will encounter the Misfit. She says, “Here this fellow that calls himself the Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida… I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it” (309). Here, you can deeply tell that the grandmother does want her grandkids to go to Florida because there is a criminal on the loose and she could not bear her conscience if they encounter him. In a way, this foreshadows that the family will encounter the Misfit in the near future. The grandmother also seems to be racist and a bit stereotypical, she says “Little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do” (309). Although this does not seem that racist, however, it does displays how people back in the day

Turpin is still upset because of what Mary Grace called her. Mary Grace told her to go back to hell and called her an old wart hog. She starts a conversation with God, after hosing down the hogs. She tells him “What do you send me a message like that for?” (330). After her conversation with God is the beginning of Mrs. Turpin revelation, which is for the first time she no longer sees herself above everyone else and her belief in hierarchy had been wrong the whole time. She now thinks this because she had a vision where she saw that “There were whole companies of white-trash, clean for the first time in their lives, and bands of black niggers in white robes” (332). Mr. Turpin’s vision made her realize she had been wrong in what she believed and knowing that she was wrong was Mrs. Turpin